Fear the Walking Dead (Walking Dead spin-off)

[whitewolf8214]

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/08/24/fear-the-walking-dead-has-the-biggest-premiere-in-cable-history?utm_source=IGN hub page&utm_medium=IGN (front page)&utm_content=25&utm_campaign=Blogroll

Looks like Fear the Walking Dead was the biggest premiere in cable history and it was by a pretty wide margin.

I figured it would be!! imo

 

[Hall]

People shouldn't too surprised by that. What will really count is how many watch next week. I bet the number drops by half.

 

[king3pj]

People shouldn't too surprised by that. What will really count is how many watch next week. I bet the number drops by half.

The number will definitely drop. Premieres and finales always do the best numbers. Half seems a little extreme though.

 

[Scherrman]

It won't drop in half. The majority of viewers would have been the die hard fans. The show might lose a few of those but the rest were just people trying out the show for the first time.

 

[Zookster]

Apparently zombies are a lot smarter in the early stages of the infection: not only can they escape from a boarded-up, fenced-in church, they can clean all traces of blood from a gunshot wound from highly absorbent concrete in a matter of minutes. Yes! I do indeed Fear The Walking Dead!

I'll keep the timer for now because it's 1) AMC; 2) TWD; and 3) Late August/early September.

 

[Scherrman]

Apparently zombies are a lot smarter in the early stages of the infection: not only can they escape from a boarded-up, fenced-in church, they can clean all traces of blood from a gunshot wound from highly absorbent concrete in a matter of minutes. Yes! I do indeed Fear The Walking Dead!

I'll keep the timer for now because it's 1) AMC; 2) TWD; and 3) Late August/early September.

I noticed the lack of blood as well. To give them credit, they never showed blood being there in the first place though. At least I don't think there was.

 

[Hall]

They showed a spot of blood on his shirt that was maybe 2" in diameter. Did he fall to the ground ? I don't remember.

 

[mike123abc]

Apparently zombies are a lot smarter in the early stages of the infection: not only can they escape from a boarded-up, fenced-in church, they can clean all traces of blood from a gunshot wound from highly absorbent concrete in a matter of minutes. Yes! I do indeed Fear The Walking Dead!

I'll keep the timer for now because it's 1) AMC; 2) TWD; and 3) Late August/early September.

I was thinking someone cleaned it up... Perhaps the government to prevent panic is quietly trying to contain the situation and prevent panic.

 

[king3pj]

I think they probably didnt put that much thought into it. Most people watching aren't expecting it to be scientifically accurate and they probably don't notice when it's not. I never even questioned the lack of blood.

 

[Hall]

Is this thread going to be like TWD thread where people over-anal-yze every little detail for correctness or accuracy?

 

[Zookster]

They showed a spot of blood on his shirt that was maybe 2" in diameter. Did he fall to the ground ? I don't remember.

Yes, Nick left Calvin lying on the ground outside the passenger side door.

I was thinking someone cleaned it up... Perhaps the government to prevent panic is quietly trying to contain the situation and prevent panic.

If the government came to clean it up, their priority would've been to remove the walking dead Calvin.

Is this thread going to be like TWD thread where people over-anal-yze every little detail for correctness or accuracy?

Let's hope so. A friendly debate over the finer points is so much more fun!

 

[TNGTony]

My analysis of the second episode..... Slllllllllooooooooooowwwwwww. And booooooooooorrrrrrrriiiiiinnnnnnnnggggg.

 

[Bodo Fenrirsson]

"Mr. Zombie? Can you hear me,Mr. Zombie? Mr. Zombie........here,let me get closer so that you can hear me better(& maybe take a bite out of me because I'm so stupid)."

After how many seasons of the Walking Dead,how many of you are screaming at these people for their obvious stupidity while being around obvious(to us) zombies? The daughter seriously needs to be slapped(she definitely is the anti-Lexa(from the 100) in this show).

 

[beandaddy]

So if we're all infected, and turn when we die, why do we turn if we're bit? We're already infected.
Something in the bite that kills us then we turn? And comic readers know?

 

[primestar31]

So if we're all infected, and turn when we die, why do we turn if we're bit? We're already infected.
Something in the bite that kills us then we turn? And comic readers know?

It cranks up the "zombie-fying" infection process to high-speed. It's been mentioned on the older series.

 

[Bodo Fenrirsson]

So if we're all infected, and turn when we die, why do we turn if we're bit? We're already infected.
Something in the bite that kills us then we turn? And comic readers know?

It cranks up the "zombie-fying" infection process to high-speed. It's been mentioned on the older series.

So it's(the infection fever) spread through "zombie saliva," but NOT by contact with blood or internal organs,such as intestines,of the zombies(although they won't drink water from a well that has a zombie in it,as seen in season 2 of the Walking Dead on Hershel's farm). These zombie rules are so confusing.

 

[Ronnie-]

I for one thoroughly enjoyed the second episode. This show is turning into exactly what I expected it to be.

 

[Hall]

So if we're all infected, and turn when we die, why do we turn if we're bit? We're already infected.
Something in the bite that kills us then we turn? And comic readers know?

Dying is dying. You "turn" irregardless of how you die. A few seasons back when the governor was on his own after Woodbury and wound up with the two women and the kid (the one woman is still with Rick's group), their father died of natural causes. He turned (did it take longer? No one can definitively say) into a zombie or at least started to before the Governor finished him off.

 

[MikeD-C05]

So it's(the infection fever) spread through "zombie saliva," but NOT by contact with blood or internal organs,such as intestines,of the zombies(although they won't drink water from a well that has a zombie in it,as seen in season 2 of the Walking Dead on Hershel's farm). These zombie rules are so confusing.

You know in the original black and white Night of the Living Dead, it was a space probe that came back to earth from Venus that the radiation caused all the dead bodies to re-animate and then the Zombie virus started to infect the living as they were attacked and bit. It would be so easy to have this explanation or one like it, inserted into the show via tv news cast , that would explain this to the characters of this show. I was hoping that this show would take the time to explain the reasons for the infection and the virus that is in all humans now. Being that they are in an urban L.A. area , it would make sense that they would be more tuned in to the news shows , internet, etc. It would also be satisfying to the viewers to know why the whole damn world is now a potential zombie feast no matter how you die.

 

[whitewolf8214]

'Fear the Walking Dead' Postmortem: Director Adam Davidson on [Spoiler's] Big Kill https://www.yahoo.com/tv/fear-the-walking-dead-episode-2-postmortem-127814367120.html

Fear the Walking Dead director Adam Davidson had an inkling that the first episode of the prequel series might infuriate a certain segment ofWalking Deadfans. After all, zombie kills are plentiful on AMC’s mothership series, which makes sense since the world had already been overrun by the undead when the show began. But since Fear the Walking Dead take place as the zombie outbreak is just getting underway, Davidson and the show’s creators, Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson, made the conscious choice to treat the walkers as a looming menace that only appear around the edges of the frame. “I know that’s frustrating for some audience members,” Davidson says. “What intrigues me is trying to slow the pace down and show the moments when the world is just learning of this. No one knows they’re not people anymore — they’re still human beings. If you killed one and a cure was found tomorrow, the police would come and arrest you.”Fear the Walking Dead smashed ratings records when the pilot premiered last week. And Davidson carried that slow, deliberate pace into the show’s second episode (he directed three of the first season’s six installments: the pilot and the second and third hours), while also giving the zombie-hungry hordes what they want — an up close and personal kill. That scene comes early in the episode, when Madison (Kim Dickens) makes a supply run to the school where she works — which has been closed while L.A. deals with the rapidly evolving mystery-virus outbreak — and runs into her friend and colleague, Art (Scott Lawrence). Unfortunately, he’s been transformed from his kind, patient self into a monster hungry for human meat. Davidson broke down the details about crafting that tense sequence, as well as the episode’s big riot scene.